Lisa Berglund

Assistant Professor of English, Buffalo State College
Associate Editor of The Drood Review of Mystery, Carmel, IN

716-878-4049
berglul@bscmail.buffalostate.edu


EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995
M.A., University of Virginia, 1985
B.A. (with High Honors), Swarthmore College, 1983


TEACHING AWARDS

Winner of the 1999 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Competition, for "Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader"

Provost's Council Choice for the John King Award for Outstanding Teaching, Connecticut College 1999

University of Virginia Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, 1991


COURSE OFFERINGS

ENG 494d:Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader [Connecticut College] [Spring 1999 syllabus]
ENG 416:Eighteenth Century English Literature [Fall 2002 syllabus]
ENG 308:Epic, Lyric and Satire in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry [Connecticut College] [Fall 1999 syllabus]
ENG 311:Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama [Connecticut College] [Fall l998 syllabus]
ENG 413:Milton [Fall 2002 syllabus]
ENG 345c: Revolutions in British Poetry, 1770-1815 [Connecticut College] [course description]
ENG 316:Shakespeare II (The Late Plays) [Spring 2000 syllabus]
ENG 216a:"Chaste Pens and Scribbling Ladies": Representing Women in Early Modern England [Connecticut College] [Spring 2000 Syllabus]
ENG 210:Survey of British Literature 1 [Spring 2002 syllabus]
ENG 211:Survey of British Literature 2 [Fall 2002 syllabus]
ENG 100f:Travel in Literature [Connecticut College] [course description]
ENG 107:Shakespeare and the Modern Imagination [Connecticut College] [(Fall 1998 syllabus)]
ENG 190:Introduction to Literary Analysis (Spring 1999) [course description]


PUBLICATIONS

  • "'Look, my Lord, it comes': The Approach of Death in the Life of Johnson," forthcoming in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 8 (2002)
  • "Allegory in The Rambler," Papers in Language and Literature, 37:2 (2001), 147-178
  • "Writing to Mr. Rambler: Samuel Johnson and Exemplary Autobiography," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 29 (1999), 241-259
  • "Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader," Teaching the Eighteenth Century 7 (1999), 45-58
  • "The Language of the Libertines: Subversive Morality in The Man of Mode," Studies in English Literature 30 (1990), 369-86
  • "Faultily Faultless: The Structure of Tennyson's Maud," Victorian Poetry 27 (1989), 45-59.
Abstracts of recent conference papers and forthcoming publications

IN THE DROOD REVIEW OF MYSTERY (partial listing)

  • "Escaping the present, revising the past: Race and racism in historical detective fiction" 22:1 (2002)
  • Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science by Ronald R. Thomas 20:4 (2000)
  • "The mystery vs. the detective story" [reviewing An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears] 18:5 (1998)
  • "Old-Fashioned Brutality: The 1997 Edgar Nominees for Best Novel" 18:2 (1998)
  • "The 1996 Edgar Nominees for Best Novel" 17:2 (1997)
  • "The problem of the series hero" 14:2 (1994)
  • "Explaining the generic detective" [on the novels of Michael Z. Lewin] 10:5 (1990)
  • "Preferring the open and shut case" [reviewing Devices and Desires by P.D. James] 10:1 (1990)
  • "Whose Philip Marlowe?" [reviewing Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe] 9:1 (1989)
  • "'For there is not a just man upon earth'" [reviewing A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George] 8:4 (1988)
  • "Sara Paretsky: The detective and the didactic urge" (interview) 7:5 (1987)
  • "[Liza] Cody's No-Frills Fiction" 6:8 (1986)
  • "They don't eat quiche, either" [reviewing Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer] 4:7 (1984)

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